{"id":923714,"date":"2021-08-20T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=923714"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:46:52","slug":"google-is-killing-android-auto-for-phones-if-you-even-know-what-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=923714","title":{"rendered":"Google is killing Android Auto for phones (if you even know what that is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/28-980x1181-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          &#8220;Android Auto for phone screens&#8221; had an Android Auto-like UI, but it ran directly on the phone screen.                       [credit:<br \/>\n                        Google                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google is killing Android Auto. No, not\u00a0<em>that<\/em> Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>Google is shutting down &#8220;Android Auto for phone screens,&#8221; which was an Android Auto offshoot for people who didn&#8217;t have cars compatible with the service. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2021\/08\/17\/android-auto-phone-screen-stops-working\/\">9to5Google<\/a>\u00a0confirmed the cancellation with Google, and XDA Developers spotted a shutdown message in the app pushing users to a newer Google car computing solution for phone screens: &#8220;Google Assistant driving mode.&#8221; As usual, we have many similarly named Google projects to keep track of, so don&#8217;t get confused!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related-stories right\">\n<h2 class=\"subheading notched\">Google kills product<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/08\/google-is-killing-android-auto-for-phones-if-you-even-know-what-that-is\/\">Google is killing Android Auto for phones (if you even know what that is)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/google-kills-its-augmented-reality-measure-app\/\">Google kills its augmented reality \u201cMeasure\u201d app<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/04\/google-is-killing-google-play-movies-tv-on-smart-tvs\/\">Google is killing \u201cGoogle Play Movies &amp; TV\u201d on smart TVs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/04\/google-is-killing-the-google-shopping-app\/\">Google is killing the Google Shopping app<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/03\/googles-vr-dreams-are-dead-google-cardboard-is-no-longer-for-sale\/\">Google\u2019s VR dreams are dead: Google Cardboard is no longer for sale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"recommendation-series\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/series\/google-kills-product\/\">View more stories<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The thing most people think about when they hear &#8220;Android Auto&#8221; is the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2015\/07\/android-auto-review-a-beautiful-but-beta-alternative-to-awful-oem-solutions\/#h2\">projected car interface<\/a>\u00a0(a competitor to Apple&#8217;s CarPlay), which loads a custom Google UI onto a vehicle&#8217;s infotainment screen. You just need an Android phone and a compatible car; plug the two together, and the interface starts up. (I like to think of this system as being similar to a desktop PC. The phone is the PC tower and does software and computing, and the car is the monitor.) Android Auto is not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1788797#p3\">Read 6 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1788797&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ePuPmbYLzqU:FLLA2Fw1Doc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ePuPmbYLzqU:FLLA2Fw1Doc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ePuPmbYLzqU:FLLA2Fw1Doc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ePuPmbYLzqU:FLLA2Fw1Doc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1788797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google is killing Android Auto for phones (if you even know what that is)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Android Auto for phone screens&#8221; had an Android Auto-like UI, but it ran directly on the phone screen. [credit: Google ] Google is killing Android Auto. No, not\u00a0that Android Auto. 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